respiratory
/ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/US/ˈɹɛs.pəɹ.əˌtɔɹ.i/
respiratory adjective: relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.
Adjective
respiratory (not comparable)
- Relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.
- Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir...2013 May–June, J. Z. Salvail, G. A. Wright, M. Kleinewietfeld, C. Wu, N. Yosef, J. L. Hood, A. P. Jallouk, N. Campbell, L. Ratner, S. A. Wickline, A. D. Luis, “In the News”, in American Scientist...
- The vaccine would be the first to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., which is the reason many infants are admitted to children’s hospitals each year and kills several hundred under 5 each year.2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 May 2023
respiratory meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Punjabi
respiratory in Tamil
- சுவாசத்திற்குரிய
respiratory in Bengali
- শ্বসন সংক্রান্ত, শ্বাসযন্ত্রের, শ্বাসপ্রশ্বাস বিষয়ক
respiratory in Kannada
- ಉಸಿರಾಟದ
respiratory in Punjabi
- ਸਾਹ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ
More languagesFewer languages
- respiratory in Arabic
- جِهَاز تَنَفُّسِيّ jihāz tanaffusiyy, تَنَفُّسِيّ tanaffusiyy
- respiratory in Indonesian
- pernapasan
Origin of respiratory
Borrowed from New Latin respīrātōrius, equal to respire + -atory.
Words formed from respiratory
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- adult respiratory distress syndrome
- bronchiorespiratory
- cardiorespiratory
- chlororespiratory
- extrarespiratory
- infant respiratory distress syndrome
- intrarespiratory
- Middle East respiratory syndrome
- nasorespiratory
- neurorespiratory
- nonrespiratory
- oculorespiratory
- osmorespiratory
- photorespiratory
- porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
- respiratorily
- respiratory bronchiole
- respiratory distress
- respiratory pigment
- respiratory practitioner
- respiratory rate
- respiratory syncytial virus
- respiratory system
- respiratory therapist
- respiratory tract
- severe acute respiratory syndrome
- sinorespiratory
- transrespiratory
Phrases with respiratory
- respiratory rates
- respiratory tracts
- respiratory systems
- respiratory pigments
- respiratory therapists
- lower respiratory tract
- respiratory bronchioles
- upper respiratory tract
- lower respiratory tracts
- upper respiratory tracts
- respiratory practitioners
- respiratory syncytial viruses
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with respiratory
- bronchiorespiratory
- cardiorespiratory
- chlororespiratory
- extrarespiratory
- intrarespiratory
- nasorespiratory
- neurorespiratory
- nonrespiratory
- oculorespiratory
- osmorespiratory
- photorespiratory
- sinorespiratory
1 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about respiratory
- What does respiratory mean?
- Respiratory means relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.
- What is respiratory in Tamil?
- Respiratory in Tamil is சுவாசத்திற்குரிய. See Respiratory meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is respiratory?
- Respiratory is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce respiratory?
- Respiratory is pronounced /ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/ (UK).
Words near respiratory in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: respiratory (page history and authors); respiratory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); respiratory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); respiratory (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); respiratory (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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